Montreal Robotics Courses

Towards Robotics Foundation Models that can Reason

Explore cutting-edge robotics foundation models that bridge semantic understanding and actionable control, featuring AHA, SAM2Act, and MolmoAct for robust manipulation tasks.

• YouTube
• 49 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Learning, Reasoning, and Planning with Neuro-Symbolic Concepts

Explore neuro-symbolic concepts for building intelligent agents that learn, reason, and plan across visual and robotic tasks with superior data efficiency.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 2 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Research Professionalism Workshop - Making Claims and Strong Story - Part 4

Master the art of formulating clear research claims and crafting compelling narratives for academic papers through practical tools and writing techniques.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 53 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Learning World Models and Physical Agents

Explore how to train world models from real-robot data and use them to evaluate policies, handle novel objects, and improve physical agents through reinforcement learning.

• YouTube
• 58 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Research Professionalism Workshop - Teamwork and Collaboration - Part 5

Master essential teamwork skills for research professionals, covering collaboration strategies, communication techniques, and tools for effective group work and supervision.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 48 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Long-Horizon Mobile Manipulation in the Wild

Explore advanced robotics combining language-conditioned planning, object-aware perception, and hierarchical policies for long-horizon mobile manipulation in real-world environments.

• YouTube
• 52 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Humanoid Robot Learning - Challenges and Approaches for General-Purpose Capabilities

Discover the unique challenges of humanoid robot learning and explore novel tools, algorithms, and architectures to advance general-purpose robotic intelligence and capabilities.

• YouTube
• 56 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Micro Vision Language Model Coding Tutorial

Discover how to build early-fusion Vision-Language Models from scratch, covering data processing, VIT creation from GPT code, multi-modal integration, and training optimization techniques.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 3 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Safe and Deployable Reinforcement Learning for Reason and Action

Explore reinforcement learning applications in robotics, building confidence in AI agents, and training LLMs to reason and act simultaneously for real-world deployment.

• YouTube
• 55 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Safe and Deployable Reinforcement Learning for Reason and Action

Explore reinforcement learning challenges in robotics, building AI agent confidence, and training LLMs to reason and act simultaneously in real-world applications.

• YouTube
• 55 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Scaling Robotic Manipulation via Structured World Models and Tactile Sensing

Discover how structured world models and tactile sensing advance robotic manipulation through physics-informed neural dynamics and scalable sensing technologies.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 10 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Rectified Point Flow - Generic Point Cloud Pose Estimation

Discover Rectified Point Flow, a unified approach to point cloud registration and object assembly using continuous velocity fields for robust geometric alignment in robotics.

• YouTube
• 50 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

A Scalable Path Towards Humanoid Foundation Models

Discover how to build humanoid foundation models using optimization-based task planning and human motion retargeting, addressing the scalability challenges of teleoperation data.

• YouTube
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

What Does RL Theory Have to Do with Robotics?

Explore how reinforcement learning theory bridges the gap to practical robotics through sim-to-real transfer and pretraining strategies for effective real-world robot learning.

• YouTube
• 52 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Resource-Rational Robot Intelligence

Discover how resource-rational robots minimize computational costs while learning and planning for deployment in unstructured, human-centric environments through metareasoning algorithms.

• YouTube
• 45 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video